Fan Recaps and Comments:

For this show, the band was supplemented by a single trumpet player (not a whole horn section). The trumpet player's name was announced several times, but I wasn't sure if it was Kurt Ramm, or Kirk Ramm, or something similar... ? He was announced as being from Connecticut.

The Johns made a number of references to being excited about playing at this venue, for several main reasons. First, because Berklee is a music school. Second, because they remember spending time in Massachusetts and seeing shows there in the past. And third, because of the quality of the theater (compared to other venues they have played in the past being characterized as dumps; for example, in the introduction before Asbury Park when describing The Stone Pony.

John Linnell also stopped to make a point that this audience was different from others, in that we applauded after the solos within the songs. Flansburgh hammed it up a couple songs later, looking for applause and taking an animated bow after performing a solo on a small electronic device. (Someone please feel free to fill in the details I'm missing.) The device might be a common one - Linnell had one too - but it reminded me of something Brian Dewan might have put together.